Madam Chair, we're very excited about express entry. It is a brand new application management system or new program for us that has been in place since the first of January where employers and provinces have an opportunity to help select candidates, or help do a better match between labour market demand or jobs in the Canadian economy and new arrivals.
In addition to having a job, another barrier will be language. It's not just a case of coming with little knowledge of English or French, but also in some cases people arrive...or we'll say from our language benchmarking program that a person needs a language benchmark 7 to come in as a federal skilled worker, but really if they're going to be an engineer, they might require a 9 or 10 on the scale of language abilities. Part of our focus in our programming is really still how to get people from a good intermediate level to a more senior level in language training, which really helps improve their outcomes.
The other issues I spoke about earlier were around recognition of foreign work experience and credential recognition.